Italian tax police said Wednesday
that they tracked down around 1,000 big tax evaders who had
sought to deprive the authorities of 2.3 billion euros, around
two million euros each, in the period between January 1, 2017
and May 31 this year.
The police force said it identified almost 13,000 tax evaders
in total in the period and presented charges for 23,000 fiscal
crimes.
It said it found irregularities in 40% of the public tender
contracts it examined.
The value of those contracts was 2.9 billion euros.
The finance police said it had found 8,400 people responsible
for causing damage to the public coffers, including via waste
and inefficiency, at an overall cost to the State of five
billion euros.
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